William Holden Movie Favorites

William Holden was just twenty one years old when he played the starring role in Golden Boy, the story of a man who has to chose between being a boxer or a violinist.

To all those screen writing gurus who are so against voice overs we offer William Holden the voice behind the dead man in Norma Desmond's swimming pool in Sunset Boulevard. A great movie about an aging Hollywood star.

William Holden is the handsome newspaperman hired to tutor the ultimate dumb blonde- Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday.

William Holden won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in Stalag 17. Billy Wilder was the director of this World War II story about a POW camp that is unexpectedly funny and suspenseful.

William Holden and Humphrey Bogart are the Larrabee brothers. Their chauffeur has a daughter named Sabrina. The brothers love Sabrina, we love Sabrina and so will you.

William Holden gives a great performance in The Country Girl. He is a director who casts an alcoholic Bing Crosby in his new Broadway musical.

A charming drifter comes to town the day of the annual Labor Day picnic. William Holden and Kim Novack star in the screen adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway play Picnic.

The Bridge on the River Kwai is a great wartime adventure. William Holden is at his best as a cynical American soldier sent on a mission to destroy the bridge.

It was quite a departure for William Holden. After a long career of playing laid back charmers, he became the ruthless leader of a violent gang of gunslingers in The Wild Bunch.

Television news anchor Howard Beal is "mad as hell' and he's not going to take it anymore. At the time it was made Network was a satire of television news, today it seems more like reality.